Re: MHO to Siemens

["Paul Camp" <pjcamp@coastal.edu>]

> It was stated that we (the engineering community) felt that they had
> positioned themselves for ridicule for a long time by using such a "cute
> and frivolous" name for the unit of reciprocal resistance (1/OHM = MHO).
> Further, the use of the inverted upper case omega to symbolically
> represent the unit just exacerbated the problem.  
>
> Editorial comments:
>
> I always thought that "flipping up-side-down" the upper case omega had
> both a certain symmetry and was almost visually demanded given that the
> unit is the reciprocal of the upper case omega.  
>                     / Prof. John P. Ertel \


Plus, if you put wheels on the bottom it looks like a mhotercycle.

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